Teaching and Learning Efficiencies - Making Your Time with the LMS More Meaningful

We have all heard the phrase, “Work smarter, not harder.” You want to be present and active within your course, without being endlessly present and active. Good news, there are ways to increase feedback and minimize course management, without adding hours to your day. Come consider options for inline grading of assignments and discussion boards. Improve understanding of features for organizing your grade book, and learn about a new design which requires fewer clicks and offers more efficiency for group management.

This session will cover approaches to help you more efficiently organize and manage assessments in Blackboard. We will discuss various methods for simplifying some of the tasks associated with test management. Some of the topics will include how to review student test access information, various ways to export entire tests and customized question sets, and techniques to set exceptions for specific students such as those requiring accommodations and make-up exams. Come join us for these and other approaches to organizing and managing assessments using Blackboard.

This session will cover how to read statistical reports available through the Grade Center in Blackboard to help you gauge individual or class progress and fine tune assessments. We will discuss various ways to glean information from Grade Center about individual student performance, class performance and tests. We will then simplify how to interpret that information and how to use it to tweak assessments for the next course offering.